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BONUS: Celebrating 50 Years of NPR : Up First On this bonus episode of Up First, a celebration of NPR's first broadcast on May 3, 1971. That day more than 20,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest against the Vietnam War. Host Audie Cornish looks back at that day and the fifty years of coverage that followed.

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BONUS: Celebrating 50 Years of NPR

BONUS: Celebrating 50 Years of NPR

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On this bonus episode of Up First, a celebration of NPR's first broadcast on May 3, 1971. That day more than 20,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest against the Vietnam War. Host Audie Cornish looks back at that day and the fifty years of coverage that followed.